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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

9km NE of Coalinga, CA

· 1.3 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kings County 46 kmSan Benito County 84 kmFresno County 85 kmSan Luis Obispo County 91 kmMonterey County 91 kmMerced County 117 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
1.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kings County, 46 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2346 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 36.2007, -120.2982. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kings County, CA 46 km (28 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kings County
San Benito County, CA 84 km (52 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near San Benito County
Fresno County, CA 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fresno County
San Luis Obispo County, CA 91 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Luis Obispo County
Monterey County, CA 91 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Monterey County
Merced County, CA 117 km (73 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Merced County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

56 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.6 8km NNW of Avenal, CA
  2. 1.8 17km NNW of Coalinga, CA
  3. 1.8 21km SSW of Cantua Creek, CA
  4. 1.9 23km ENE of San Ardo, CA
  5. 1.8 5km NE of Coalinga, CA
  6. 2.3 5km SSE of Parkfield, CA
  7. 1.8 16km S of Kettleman City, CA
  8. 1.7 8km NNE of New Idria, CA
  9. 1.7 16km S of Kettleman City, CA
  10. 2.1 25km NW of Parkfield, CA
  11. 2.3 25km NW of Parkfield, CA
  12. 2.2 11km NNE of New Idria, CA
  13. 1.8 12km S of Stratford, CA
  14. 2.2 14km ENE of Kettleman City, CA
  15. 2.2 14km S of Stratford, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2019-12-17 — it released about 6,700 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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